Cooperation is the biggest accelerator to achieving your personal goals! Mentors, Networking and Mastermind groups have been credited by the utmost successful as pivotal. Guess what they have in common? They all involve other people. What good is gaining the whole world and being there alone? Hard work is not an end in itself. As Bill Gates said:
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a job. Because he will find an easy way to do it."

Some days, humans experience this undescriptible sensation of wanting to be smarter, of wanting to learn it all; those days when you actually believe in the idea that your brain has not yet developed its full potential. These days often happen when you are working on something that you are passionate about, towards a particular goal that has the potential of changing your entire life. The moment you find something that makes you woke up everyday motivated and determined to conquer the world, you won’t stop until you are the best at it, just because you know you can. Not only you but that relentless inner person you have inside, feel the need to put to use that brain of yours. To be honest, maybe and just maybe, this amazing feeling that I am describing is something that you don’t really want to experience so often. Once you are aware, you are responsible, and responsibility is a very heavy weight to lift, just hold to the feeling that you will be lean af after it though.

Read this if: You have a hard goal or you want to be extraordinary at something specific

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a must for all sloths. It makes the best case for one of our biggest magical beliefs: you can be who you want to be. Grit is the ability to persevere in finishing our big goals even in the midst of recurrent obstacles. Society usually makes a division between talent and hard work, the former being a gift that a privileged few might enjoy. However, Angela Duckworth delivers with finesse the verdict that Grit is not only more important than talent, but the most common denominator for extraordinary magical sloths (or people).

The other most compelling point is that scientific experiments suggests that depression occurs when we feel there is absolutely nothing we can do about a particular situation. But Duckworth delivers again, showing us how we can become grittier. Which ultimately results in a much more intensely fulfilling life.

Favorite Quote

“To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.”

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Priorities is a foundation of Time Management. Without them, Procrastination, our most viciously hated enemy would not exist. When we procrastinate we are delaying more important activities to do lesser important activities like nothing, which honestly it feels good for a while. But then, the irony of ironies happens to us we feel tired from doing nothing all day. As Oscar Wilde said:

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing.”

So don’t work so hard, let’s try having priorities and doing something productive for a change. Before prescribing the medicine, let’s first do a successful diagnosis, (not like that ever stop a doctor from hurling a prescription). When your day starts at the office are you reacting to tasks and emails from others or are you creating your own? Reactiveness is the biggest symptom, and if your day starts by opening your inbox you better keep reading.

Doing What You Are Supposed To Equals To Less Money

Why is it wrong to open my inbox? What if there is an emergency? If there is an emergency, trust me on that you will find out, regardless of opening your inbox. The truth is that nobody on any job gets promoted for doing what they are supposed to do. That was not a typo. The ones who get ahead are the ones who do what they are supposed, but most importantly what they are not. Why should your annual raise be over 5% if you are just meeting your responsibilities? This means that your habit of opening the inbox first thing on the morning, or even worst, having it on your phone (God, that is truly unbearable), is stopping you from making more money. Do I have your attention? (Of Course I do, I just needed to hurt you where it hurts, your wallet).

How satisfied are you with the fact of being an adult? Does it feels how you imagine it? Is it worth it? All those occasions when not been old enough was an obstacle, are significant now? If while you are reading this you don’t strongly desire to be a kid again, we don’t believe you at all. We all want to go back to those days when everything was momentary, those days when nothing really affected us; only what we actually gave importance to. Those days were magical, we gave a hundred percent to anything that we were doing, thinking, or saying; is kind of a nostalgic sensation to realize that at some point, we used to be better than what we currently are. We were engage in whatever we were doing, nothing else mattered because we had one purpose (and we were not willing to distract ourselves from it). Maybe we had the privilege of feeling this way because we had someone behind our back taking care of the important but so boring subjects, but that was not the reason, we were not thinking about that. We mainly focused on doing the best we could to achieve something.
Rather you wish you were a kid again or no, that doesn’t really matter. First because is literally impossible, and second, because we actually want from you is to go back and look at yourself and imitate that fearless/amazing/brave/ and courageous behavior you used to have and implement it in your life as an old person. Since we are really nice people and you probably too old and tired to figure out how to do this yourself, we are going to give you 3 simple steps to go back to the Good Old Days.

There is something about the concept of eternity that drives us humans absolutely insane. Is not precisely the idea of an infinite existence, is this crazy feeling of wanting to eternally hold to particular experiences that evoke great sensations inside us. Going back to where everything started, the idea of wanting to make a pleasant moment perpetual is a very obvious and expected behavior; who wants to experience the sadness of eating the last scoop of an ice cream right? No one wants to finish a bowl because is so good. We know that at some point we are going to have enough, that incredibly pleasant moment or experience is not going to be crazy appealing forever. Precisely because is not going to last forever, we develop a momentaneous sense of eternity, we really really like what we are experiencing, and we want more of it. We want all the ice cream we can possibly have until a stomach ache tells us the opposite (But we do need that stomach ache to happen to understand that there is nothing else stopping us from getting what we want but ourselves). This is pure human nature, we don’t appreciate being told what to do, we don’t want to be treated like kids; we will learn our way (and most of the times this turns out to be very painful).

That work can sometimes be tedious is an understatement. According to the Washington Post only 13% of people actually like going to work. This is a global tragedy. That this is even a possibility is a tragedy. How come that only so few can actually enjoy and be passionate about what they do? This means that you are going in to the office today, you will need to do some legit recon to find a select few who actually like being there.

Well, we can keep reasoning and say “we do not go to work for work itself, but for its benefits”. Even though if this was true, which it isn’t, how much money would you require if the condition was not to enjoy it? I sound like a madman, but consider for a second that according to Skift, 41% of Americans did not take a single vacation day during 2015. A single day. This means that on top of the 87% who do not like going to work, only a little more than half were able to run away to something they actually enjoyed for a couple of days throughout the year.

Quite unfortunately if you hate Walmart you will find no use for this post. On the other hand if that is not the case you will absolutely love what we are about to say, that is, if you don’t know already. Before we explain how simple it can be to cut down all of the time you spend at Walmart, let’s just say that there is a lot of alignment with what we want to accomplish at The Magic Sloth and what has been accomplished at Walmart.

Walmart’s slogan is Save Money, Live Better which is very similar to our Save Time, Live Life. Walmart is on a mission to save its customers as much money as possible in order that they might live a better life.

Money is a very interesting topic, is a mix of happiness, sadness, ambiguousness and mostly, motivation. We decided that you all needed reasons and solid explanations of why these pieces of paper trigger such feelings on us. “Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”. You will think that money has absolutely nothing to do with The Little Prince, but the way he looks at a material object is one of the most beautiful and sophisticated explanations that have ever been exposed. (If you’re not familiar with this masterpiece, you just have to stop right here and do some research about it: The Little Prince). We are not going to sit here and tell you how bad money is and how dangerous it can turn out to be, we are here to make you look at money in an entirely different way, the same way as the little prince look at his rose. It’s not precisely rocket science that money is just a piece of paper, like actually, nothing else than that (and ink and some secret codes). Sadly, everyone who has been there knows that having no money (or no rose), creates and stage of stress and desolation that is not pleasant at all; who would say that “paper” can make you feel that way?

That work can sometimes be tedious is an understatement. According to the Washington Post only 13% of people actually like going to work. This is a global tragedy. That this is even a possibility is a tragedy. How come that only so few can actually enjoy and be passionate about what they do? This means that you are going in to the office today, you will need to do some legit recon to find a select few who actually like being there.

Well, we can keep reasoning and say “we do not go to work for work itself, but for its benefits”. Even though if this was true, which it isn’t, how much money would you require if the condition was not to enjoy it? I sound like a madman, but consider for a second that according to Skift, 41% of Americans did not take a single vacation day during 2015. A single day. This means that on top of the 87% who do not like going to work, only a little more than half were able to run away to something they actually enjoyed for a couple of days throughout the year.

Weekends are like chocolate; everyone loves them and looks forward to have just a little tiny piece of enjoyment. But have you ever actually wonder why weekends generate such a satisfactory feeling? Is it because you have the option to do what you actually want? Or because you can actually do absolutely nothing? Have you thought that it may just be that we feel that we haven’t spent enough time with the people who really matter to us? No matter from what planet you are from, weekends are deeply loved by everyone. Going back to the idea of filling out your jungle with the right people, you would think that the idea of just having the people you like around is not really viable and realistic when talking about a work environment. Contrary to your beliefs, it is possible and in this post we are going to teach how to do it; we are going to make you feel that going to the office on Monday is just an extension of the weekend.

We believe that there is no need to emphasize in this subject any more, but just in case, we are going to remind you again to always Start with the Why. And believe us, there are SO MANY why’s implicated when it comes to the work place.